Lost Continent - Travels in Small-Town America (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Lost Continent - Travels in Small-Town America (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. Bryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of

Neither Here, Nor There - Travels in Europe (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in

One Summer - America 1927 (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. This book brings to life a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre

Made In America - An Informal History of American English (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Funny, wise, learned and compulsive. (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the

Down Under - Travels in a Sunburned Country (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite

In America - Travels with John Steinbeck (Mak Geert)(Paperback / softback)

In a Small Town (Fowler Debby)(Paperback / softback)

Notes From A Small Island - Journey Through Britain (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his

Shakespeare (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and

Wild Bill (Rodolphe)(Paperback)

While escorting a prisoner, Trent stops in a very animated small town: the famous Wild Bill Turkey is passing through on his way to his bride. Bill is a legend among gunfighters of the Old West. An aging one, yes, but that doesn't prevent him from coming to the Mountie's help when a group of men

In a Sunburned Country (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an

Searching For Caleb (Tyler Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, this book is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots - and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and

Big Lies in a Small Town (Chamberlain Diane)(Paperback / softback)

Big Lies in a Small Town, by the internationally bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, is a sweeping novel about two women connected by a painting that holds many dark secrets.North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she

Want to Play? (Tracy P. J.)(Paperback / softback)

The slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to stop a sickeningly inventive serial killer striking again in a city paralysed by

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury Ray)(Paperback / softback)

Ray Bradbury's extraordinary tale of childhood dreams and supernatural agency in small-town America

Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a 'terribly misguided and terribly funny' (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body 'The best way of escaping into nature.'--The New York Times Back in America after

On Rue Tatin - The Simple Pleasures of Life in a Small French Town (Loomis Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan

Young Skins (Barrett Colin)(Paperback / softback)

A collection that takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live hard. It

The Fruit Thieves (Simov Max)(Paperback)

In the middle of the last century, in a small remote town lost in the foothills of the magnificent Caucasus Mountains, the local children raid their neighbours' fruit orchards during the summer holidays. The best apples for Pasha, the nine-year old boy, are behind the impenetrable fence of the

Shtetl (Hoffman Eva)(Paperback)

In Shtetl (Yiddish for 'small town'), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks at the

Road to Little Dribbling - More Notes from a Small Island (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted

Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (Dick Philip K.)(Paperback / softback)

Small town America tears itself apart in this realist novel from one of the greats of science

Town (Prescott Shaun)(Paperback / softback)

In an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback, a young writer arrives to research small settlements that have vanished into